Live Auction 2406Works from the Collection of Michael Crichton
Christie’s roundel
Lot 21 WORKS FROM THE COLLECTION OF MICHAEL CRICHTON

Agnes Martin (1912-2004)

Untitled

Closed12 May 2010

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USD 962,500

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Agnes Martin (1912-2004)
Untitled
oil, ink and wash on canvas
12 x 12 in. (30.5 x 30.5 cm.)
Painted circa 1961.

Robert Elkon Gallery, New York
Mr. and Mrs. Albert A. List, Greenwich
Her sale; Sotheby's, New York, 12 November 2003, lot 4
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Specialist note

"All art work is about beauty, all positive art work represents it and celebrates it. All negative art protests the lack of beauty in our lives."

(Martin, quoted in "What We Do Not See If We Do Not See," Writings/Schriften, H. von Dieter Schwarz, New York, 1992, p. 114).